Alumni in the News
Sheila Edwards Lange (MPA '00) Named New Interim VP for Minority Affairs
Sheila Edwards Lange has been selected as UW's interim vice president for minority affairs and vice provost for diversity, effective May 15. Lange currently serves as special assistant to the vice president for minority affairs. The appointment was announced by President Mark A. Emmert. Read more...
Serena Maurer (MPA '00) Granted UW's First Doctoral Degree from the Women Studies Department
Just before winter quarter ended, Serena Maurer successfully defended her dissertation and picked up her doctorate. Nothing unusual about that, except that Maurer is the very first student to earn her doctorate from the UW Women Studies Department. In doing so, she's come to the end of an odyssey that started back in 1998, when she was in the first group of doctoral students to be admitted to the program. Read more...
Sally Clark (MPA '04) appointed to Seattle City Council
In the tug of war between Seattle neighborhoods and City Hall, neighborhoods are likely gaining an advocate in the City Council's newest member, Sally Clark. Read more...
Erica Mills (MPA '01) on Women, Pay and Work
Evans School alumna Erica Mills (MPA '01) spoke on a panel of women interviewed by Steve Scher, host of KUOW's Weekday, for International Women's Day. Mills highlighted the role that microfinance programs are playing in creating entrepreneurial opportunities for women in poor countries. She noted that women have higher loan repayment rates, and reinvest savings in sustaining family infrastructures more than men do. She also emphasized the need for business and civic leaders to make poverty alleviation a high priority among policy makers. Mills is a strategic advisor for the Initiative for Global Development, the advocacy program of Seattle-based Global Partnerships, an organization working to create economic opportunity through innovative microlending programs. Listen to the Women, Pay and Work panel on KUOW's audio archive:
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What do mid-century blue laws, a cop and an MPA have in common?
Answer: Evans School alumnus Neil Moloney got his MPA in 1980, forged a successful career in law enforcement, and used his rich experiences to turn novelist and write of police intrigue in 1950s mid-America. Renaissance Cop (PublishAmerica, 2005), the second in series of three novels, is informed by Moloney's extensive career in law enforcement and police education, including former positions as Chief of the Washington State Patrol, Director of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and leadership roles in the Seattle Police Department. Book details on Amazon.com...
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